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The following article was originally published on Diginomica as Bimodal IT is only harmful when oversimplified I’ve been asked and written about bimodal IT a fair bit over the last few months and have come to develop a nuanced view of the concept that doesn’t comport with the dire warnings summarized in an earlier Diginomica column, Gartner’s bimodal… Read More »

Commodification promised to kill old tech stalwarts like Cisco, EMC and Oracle as standardized, mass produced hardware paired with open source software undermined their high-margin businesses. However the road to irrelevance was detoured by an instinctive response: adapt or die. Each company’s resulting metamorphosis from peddling boxes to building full stack IT systems has been both predictable and impressive. Predictable… Read More »

Disruptive technologies are a time-tested means of upending the business environment. Remember Western Union? No, not the money order company, but the one that lost its communication empire to Bell Telephone. How about former business giants like Kodak, Motorola, WorldCom and most recently, Radio Shack, that once dominated their field and are no longer with us. All were undone by… Read More »

September is always a busy month for mobile news, this year highlighted by impressive new iPhone and Galaxy Note releases, an iOS update and even an unorthodox new Blackberry phone. These events have led me to ponder the use of mobile devices, whether smarthphones or tablets, in business where these now-indispensable consumer items (e.g. more people carry a smartphone… Read More »

I recently completed a research project looking at ECM software and one vendor in particular that is winning business from large, established incumbents like EMC (Documentum), IBM and Oracle. I was intrigued by Generis since I wanted to understand how such a small, private company could successfully develop and market a product that amounts to an extra-cost add-on… Read More »

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst sees the business opportunity of a generation in what he calls a computing paradigm shift from client-server to cloud architectures. “In those paradigm shifts, generally new winners emerge,” says Whitehurst and he intends to make sure Red Hat is one of those winners. His logic is sound and simple: disruptive technologies like the cloud that arise… Read More »

The term “cloud” is by now so overused that most people lump it in with the rest of the marketing buzzword pantheon with terms like “solution”, “leverage” or “ROI.” You’re probably thinking that the cloud is what Google and Amazon do and how could it possibly be relevant to your business? Well it is (what Google does) and… Read More »

Now that both Amazon and Apple have made streaming an included perk of their primary products , wondering how it changes the market. Will enough people see the combo as good enough, ditching NFLX?
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